Franca Mazzoni

A Brief Vacation (1973)

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potenti ...

Oplà, noi viviamo (1972)

The story of Karl, a Spartacist revolutionary who, upon his release after eight years in a psychiatric hospital, finds himself in an inhumane and corrupt society, with his former comrades now assimilated into the system. ...

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spe ...

The Trial of Saint Therese of The Child Jesus (1967)

The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux. ...

The Demon (1964)

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence. ...

Careless (1962)

Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her. ...

Everyone's in Love (1959)

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra. ...

Pia de' Tolomei (1958)

Pia de' Tolomei, despite being in love with Ghino Perticari, was forced to marry a nobleman from Siena who, when he discovers her love for the other man, has her locked up in a tower. ...

The Dragon's Blood (1958)

Legendary hero Siegfried uses a magic sword to fight a huge, fire-breathing dragon. ...

Camping (1958)

Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents. After a journey full of adventures, aboard a sidecar, they find themselves in a campsite populated by Germans. ...

March's Child (1958)

Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner. ...

It Happened in Rome (1957)

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome. ...

The Bachelor (1955)

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits hi ...

Le souffle de la liberté (1955)

In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat. ...

L'amore di Norma (1951)

Mater dolorosa (1943)